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The Keith & Carol Brown Family Foundation Co Benjamin Brown

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$53k
Granted FY2024still arriving
7
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What you fund
0198% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172024.

Education$94kFood & Nutrition$84kPhilanthropy$48kRecreation & Sports$39kReligion$30kHealth$14kHuman Services$8kPublic Benefit$5kOther$0
02FY2024 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k4 grants · $23k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $30k
$7,500
Median grant
3
States reached
$687k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE CHALLENGE FOUNDATION$10,000
ROUNDUP RIVER RANCH$10,000
THE DESERT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$10,000
COLORADO CATTLEMEN'S AGRICULTURAL T$7,500
ALL WITHIN MY HANDS FOUNDATION$7,500
THE OWEN FOUNDATION FOR RECOVERY$5,000
FOOD BANK OF THE ROCKIES$2,500
02The need
03

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.

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Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 31% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%CASTING FOR RECOVERY: $5k → 10%ALL WITHIN MY HANDS FOUNDATION: $8k → 8%THE DESERT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $10k → 11%PROVIDENCIA COUNSELING COLLECTIVE: $5k → 11%THE OWEN FOUNDATION FOR RECOVERY: $5k → 4%COLORADO CATTLEMEN'S AGRICULTURAL T: $10k → 7%VAIL RELIGOUS FOUNDATION: $10k → 7%ROUNDUP RIVER RANCH: $10k → 8%THE CHALLENGE FOUNDATION: $15k → 8%UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION: $22k → 12%CASTING FOR RECOVERY: $3k → 11%CASTING FOR RECOVERY: $2k → 10%THE DESERT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $5k → 11%COLORADO CATTLEMEN'S AGRICULTURAL T: $10k → 7%VAIL RELIGOUS FOUNDATION: $10k → 7%ROUNDUP RIVER RANCH: $5k → 8%THE CHALLENGE FOUNDATION: $10k → 8%FOOD BANK OF THE ROCKIES: $5k → 12%THE DESERT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $5k → 11%COLORADO CATTLEMEN'S AGRICULTURAL T: $10k → 7%VAIL RELIGOUS FOUNDATION: $10k → 7%ROUNDUP RIVER RANCH: $5k → 8%THE CHALLENGE FOUNDATION: $10k → 8%FOOD BANK OF THE ROCKIES: $3k → 12%THE DESERT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $5k → 11%COLORADO CATTLEMEN'S AGRICULTURAL T: $10k → 7%TOWN OF VAIL: $5k → 7%THE CHALLENGE FOUNDATION: $10k → 8%FOOD BANK OF THE ROCKIES: $3k → 12%THE DESERT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $5k → 11%COLORADO CATTLEMEN'S AGRICULTURAL T: $9k → 7%THE CHALLENGE FOUNDATION: $10k → 8%FOOD BANK OF THE ROCKIES: $2k → 12%THE DESERT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $10k → 11%COLORADO CATTLEMEN'S AGRICULTURAL T: $8k → 7%THE CHALLENGE FOUNDATION: $9k → 8%THE DESERT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $8k → 11%COLORADO CATTLEMEN'S AGRICULTURAL T: $8k → 7%THE CHALLENGE FOUNDATION: $8k → 8%COLORADO CATTLEMEN'S AGRICULTURAL T: $8k → 7%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge
repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

84%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$233k · 6 repeat orgs$45k to everyone else

6 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

6
3

Total granted

$233k
$32k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+23%
+79%

Still filing today

100%
33%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 71% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $13k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Food & NutritionEducationRecreation & SportsHealthOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • CC
    COLORADO CATTLEMEN'S AGRICULTURAL LAND TRUST
    8× · 2017–2024 · $72k · revenue +3%
  • RR
    ROUNDUP RIVER RANCH
    8× · 2017–2024 · $39k · revenue +73%
  • FB
    FOOD BANK OF THE ROCKIES
    4× · 2020–2024 · $12k · revenue +23%

Funded once

  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $22k · revenue +79%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2023 · $5k
  • TO
    TOWN OF VAIL
    one grant, 2018 · $5k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Colorado Gives Foundation

We connect people, ideas, and nonprofits to make good happen. our vision is that all of jeffco is thriving.

Philanthropy
2
Colorado Food Cluster Inc

Provide opportunities for all to thrive by offering free food resources to communities.

Food & Nutrition
3
Colorado Farm Bureau

To advance the interest of the colorado farm and ranch community. activities include research and inquiry into the fields of agriculture, industry, commerce, transportation, economic and political relations.

4
The Vermont Community Foundation

The vermont community foundation helps to build philanthropic resources to sustain healthy and vital vermont communities. the foundation connects and mobilizes people through giving to multiply the impact of philanthropy.

Philanthropy
5
Boulder Climbing Community

Stewardship of climbing access areas and climbing access trails.

Environment
6
Colorado Legal Services

To provide meaningful access to high quality, civil legal services in the pursuit of justice for as many low income persons and members of vulnerable populations throughout colorado as possible.

Crime & Legal
7
Colorado State University Foundation

See schedule o colorado state university foundation assists in the promotion, development, and enhancement of facilities and educational programs and enhancements of faculty, students, and alumni of colorado state university (csu). this is…

Education
8
Colorado Lawyer Trust Account Foundation

Funding of legal services, pro-bono, and legal education projects.

Crime & Legal
9
Colorado Christian Service Camp

Through this unique mountain environment to encourage and challenge campers to become fully devoted followers of christ by making decisions to follow christ rededicating their lives to christ and being called into full time ministry.

10
Colorado Chamber of Commerce Fka Co Assn of Commerce & Industry

The colorado chamber of commerce mission is to enhance the business climate of the state of colorado by promoting a positive legislative and regulatory environment and providing programs and services for its members, economic education,…

11
Community Foundation Trust

To assist the community foundation of northern colorado

Philanthropy
12
Routt County Riders

Routt County Riders advocates to implement positive change for cyclists in Northwest Colorado.

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Colorado Cattlemen's Agricultural Land Trust and the most unlike its peers is Vail Religious Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

04the grantee network

8 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 8 of the 12 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/8
Grantees still filing
6/8
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

THE CHALLENGE FOUNDATION INC — $71,500 · EducationTHE CHALLENGE FOUNDATION INCUNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION — $22,170 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATIO…COLORADO CATTLEMEN'S AGRICULTURAL LAND TRUST — $72,000 · Food & NutritionCOLORADO CATTLEMEN'S AGRICULT…FOOD BANK OF THE ROCKIES — $12,000 · Food & NutritionFOOD BANK OF THE ROCKIESVAIL RELIGIOUS FOUNDATION — $30,000 · OtherVAIL RELIGIOUS FOU…ALL WITHIN MY HANDS FOUNDATION — $7,500 · OtherALL WITHIN MY HAND…Individual grant recipient — $5,000 · OtherIndividual grant r…OWEN FOUNDATION FOR RECOVERY INC — $5,000 · OtherOWEN FOUNDATION FO…TOWN OF VAIL — $5,000 · OtherTOWN OF VAILDESERT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $47,500 · PhilanthropyDESERT COMMUNITY…ROUNDUP RIVER RANCH — $38,500 · Recreation & SportsROUNDUP RIVER…CASTING FOR RECOVERY — $9,000 · Health
Education$93,670Food & Nutrition$84,000Other$52,500Philanthropy$47,500Recreation & Sports$38,500Health$9,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetCOLORADO CATTLEMEN'S AGRICULTURAL LAND TRUST — $72,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetTHE CHALLENGE FOUNDATION INC — $71,500 over 7y, 0.8% of budgetDESERT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $47,500 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetROUNDUP RIVER RANCH — $38,500 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetVAIL RELIGIOUS FOUNDATION — $30,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION — $22,170 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFOOD BANK OF THE ROCKIES — $12,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCASTING FOR RECOVERY — $9,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budget
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

  • Who funds COLORADO CATTLEMEN'S AGRICULTURAL LAND TRUST
  • Who funds THE CHALLENGE FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds DESERT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION
  • Who funds ROUNDUP RIVER RANCH
  • Who funds VAIL RELIGIOUS FOUNDATION
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION
  • Who funds FOOD BANK OF THE ROCKIES
  • Who funds CASTING FOR RECOVERY

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization The Keith & Carol Brown Family Foundation Co Benjamin Brown funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 12 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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